Village where all Raugusts in the USA originate
Ortsfamilienbuch Kulm, Bessarabien von 1815 – 1940 – Family Village Book from Kulm, Bessarabia from 1815 – 1940.
I ordered a book which was published in its second edition in 2007.This is the church register for Kulm in Bessarabia.It cost 39.06 euros, which included postage to Canada (I had sent $50.00 Canadian) and can be ordered from the Cardamina Verlag, Susanne Breue, Willibrordstrasse 11a, 56637 Plaidt, Germany; Tel.: 01149 700 2827 3835, Fax: 01149 700 2827 3835; Email: [email protected]http://www.cardamina.dehttp://www.cardamina.deThe book is listed as costing 25 euros without postage.
This information was compiled by Hilda Kison of Bad Friedrichshall.She told me over the phone that about 100 copies hadbeen sold so far.
The book includes:
1. Einleitung/Introduction – pages 3-10
2. Registry of Births/Baptisms from 1815-1843 – pages 11- 28 (pages to 18 also include the marriages and the deaths.
3. Registry of all the inhabitants of the community of Kulm who were resettled to Germany in October 1940 (from the Kulm Homeland Book as of 1968) – pages 29-62 – The last wagon train of the 1,725 inhabitants of Kulm left on October 6, 1940 to the ringing of the bells in the church steeple.183 men died as soldiers.32 Kulmers were taken to Russia.Most of these never returned.
4. The Kulm in Bessarabia founded in 1815 family register – pages 63-241
5. List of Births/Baptisms from 1919-1940 – pages 242-263
6. The original property lot numbers for the settlers –pages 264-265
7. Emigrants – pages 267-273 (USA, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, the Causcasus, Siberia, the Dobrudja, Romania, the Banat in Romania, the Crimea
8. Register of Last and First Names to the book and where to find them – pages 274-314
9. Corrections for the family village book of Kulm (Bessarabia) – page 315
10. Table of Contents – page 317
Hilda Kison told me over the phone that about ½ of the Kulmers settled on land which was originally the property of large land owners in the former German Democratic Republic near the city of Magdeburg.According to Mrs. Kison, they have generally remained faithful as Evangelical Lutheran Christians despite the Communist dictatorship of so many decades.
The family register includes the following Kulm families:
Albrecht, Banko, Banoer, Bartel, Bech, Behr, Beyer, Beglau, Bender, Bepke, Bich, Biederstaedt, Biffart, Binder, Birkholz, Bobermin, Bomm, Boettcher, Bohnet, Brand/Brandt, Burgemeister, Busse, Dallmann, Deckert, Dickhoff, Dieno, Doberstein, Doering, Domday, Drabri, Eckert, Erdmann, Fix, Finkbeiner, Fischer, Fritz, Flaig, Flato, Flath, Flegel, Fredrich, Friedrich, Fried, Fruck, Gellert, Glantz, Glass, Grade, Graumann, Gross, Grossmann, Gruenke, Grunberg, Guenter/Guenther, Gulke, Guse, Gwinner, Haase, Handke, Hartmann, Hass/Hasz, Hausch, Hein, Henke, Henneberg, Hennig, Hensel, Hildebrand, Hille, Hinz/Hintz, Hirschmann, Hoffmann, Hund, Isaak, Jafe, Jasmann, Jeske, Jeske, Justawitz, Kalis, Kalmbach, Kautz, Kehrer, Kelm, Klemm, Kolmus, Kindler, Kison, Kisse, Klemptner, Kliem, Kling, Klinger, Klukas, Knoll, Knopp, Koenig, Kosanke, Koth, Kraft, Krause, Kroll, Krueger, Kuebler, Kugele, Kuhn, Lange, Lay, Leischner, Leyer, Lemke, Laengner, Lieb, Linse, Lobe, Loeffelbein, Maier, Malchin, Marks, Martens, Millab (Milowsky), Moritz, Moewes, Moldenhauer, Mueller, Neumann, Netzel/Noetzel, Nill, Pohl, Polfus, Pomereinke, Prenzel, Pflugrad, Priess, Puepke, Pueschel, Quaschnick, Quast, Radach, Radke, Rath, Raugust, Rauter, Rauschenberger, Redel, Reimann, Renke, Retzlaff, Ring, Roloff, Rosenau, Rosenfeld, Rothe (Kothe), Ruebhagel, Ruge, Rutschke, Sanftleben, Sauer, Schelske, Scherin, Scheuchner, Schimke, Schmied, Schlapp, Schoeller/Schueler, Schoettle, Schraut, Schramm, Schuetz, Schulkowsky (Schilkowsky), Schulz, Schwab, Selcho, Sept, Sidon, Sommer, Sperling, Stein, Steinke, Stelter, Stelzer, Stern, Stickel, Strimske, Struck, Sustock, Teige, Teschner, Tiede, Thum, Viess, Vogel, Wandry, Wegner, Weisspfennig, Weiss, Wiedmer, Wieland, Winter, Wirsch, Wittchen, Wittke, Wolf, Wolfing, Wornach, Wudel, Zahn, Zeitner, Zundel
I have the following families in my own direct family tree:Bohnet, Fredrich, Hass/Hasz, Kautz, Mueller, Netzel/Noetzel, Quast, Rath, Schoeller/Schueler, Schulz, Sept and Teschner.The non-Kulm names in the list are, of course, from other villages (either people who simply moved there or married into the village).
It may be valuable to post this material on the internet somewhere.People on the Bessarabian electronic mailing list may wish to let people whom they know and who originate from Kulm about this book.
The following names are listed among the emigrants:Banko, Bartel, Bich, Birkholz, Bobermin, Boettcher, Doering, Eberle, Flaig, Flato, Flegel, Fredrich, Friess, Gaier?, Graumann, Gross, Guse, Haase, Hartmann, Hass/Hasz, Heid, Heger?, Henke, Henneberg, Hensel, Hildebrand, Hille, Hinz, Hirschmann, Hoenke, Hoffmann, Isaak, Jeschke, Jeske, Kison, Kittler, Knopp, Kraft, Kroll, Kuhn, Kurtz, Lay, Leischner, Lobe, Loeffelbein, Luks?, Maier, Marks, Mueller, Necker, Petsch, Pflugrad, Pippke, Puepke, Radach, Radke, Rath, Raugust, Rauschenberger, Rauter, Renke, Retzlaff, Roloff, Sackmann, Sauer, Schelske, Schimker, Schimke, Schlaps, Schlenker, Schmied, Schmierer, Schuetz, Schulz, Selcho, Sperling, Stelter, Stern, Tiede, Thum, Vogle, Yanke, Wiedmer, Widmer, Winter, Wittchen, Wudel, Wutzke
According to my own observation, this does not include all of the emigrants from Kulm.The book is easily understood by learning a few basic German terms and no one will fall over dead by doing that! (This is a German Bessarabian phrase – Keiner wird tot umfallen.)
Submitted by Horst W. Gutsche